Lt. Mary Stuart: What's the matter cupid? I saw your wire.
'Pop' Perry: Have you been seeing a lot of Bob?
Lt. Mary Stuart: Yes.
'Pop' Perry: Should we level with each other, like always?
Lt. Mary Stuart: Like always.
'Pop' Perry: I think you and Duke belong together. I don't know what's been keeping you apart, but I'd hate to think you were using my kid brother to solve your problem.
Lt. Mary Stuart: Aww Pop, why didn't I meet you first?


--Patricia Neal (as ) in Operation Pacific

Marcia Jeffries: Betty Lou is your public, all wrapped up with yellow ribbons into one cute little package. She's the logical culmination of the great 20th-centure love affair between Lonesome Rhodes and his mass audience.


--Patricia Neal (as Marcia Jeffries) in A Face in the Crowd

Margaret Jane Singleton: You know, I'll say one thing for Brant Royle: when he looks at me, I know I'm a woman.


--Patricia Neal (as Margaret Jane Singleton) in Bright Leaf

Nettie Cleary: In all my life, the past twelve hours are the only real freedom I've ever known.
Timmy Cleary: Did you enjoy it?
Nettie Cleary: Every moment.
Timmy Cleary: Why did you come back?
Nettie Cleary: I'm a coward.


--Patricia Neal (as Nettie Cleary) in The Subject Was Roses

Hud Bannon: You're half native already. I've never seen you in a pair of shoes since you have work here.
Alma Brown: I wore'em once. I think to get married in. White satin pumps. I don't have'em anymore or the man either.


--Patricia Neal (as Alma Brown) in Hud

Sgt. Ernie Guelvada: [upon seeing Joan] The widow lady! Live and learn.
Joan Ross: If it isn't the cavalry.


--Patricia Neal (as ) in Diplomatic Courier

Dominique Francon: I wish I had never seen your building. It's the things that we admire or want that enslave us, I'm not easy to bring into submission.


--Patricia Neal (as Dominique Francon) in The Fountainhead